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How Magnet Therapy Can Help Reverse The Hidden Chronic Fatigue Epidemic

Article by Donna Gray

So how can an epidemic that’s affecting over 1 million people remain hidden you may ask?

When you take a moment to think about it, you would probably assume that something affecting so many people would have had a major impact on the headlines right?

Well, actually, no, at least not in the case of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), you see the difficulty with this complex illness is that many people may have it without even realising it!

Part of the problem is that there is no one single cause that leads to CFS. In fact, the range of symptoms is so wide that, the illness can often remain undetected for years. Some of these symptoms are listed here:

- Allergies

- Anxiety

- Blurred vision

- Brain fog

- Confusion & memory loss

- Excessive coughing

- Decrease in appetite

- Depression

- Digestive disorders

- Dizziness

- Dry eyes & mouth

- Headaches

- Irritability

- Joint and muscle pain

- Low body temperature

- Fever

- Nausea

- Prolonged fatigue after exertion

- Severe fatigue

The challenge for doctors, is that this range of symptoms could easily be associated with a whole range of other illnesses. So in many respects, the silently raging internal crisis often only becomes apparent, when the body’s immune system is given one symptoms too many burdens to handle, so it responds with a breakdown in the form of CFS.

In addition to the symptoms I mentioned earlier, one of the biggest challenges that sufferer’s have to contend with, is people, i.e., some doctors and even family and friends thinking that the illness is ‘all in their head’. The main reason for this is due to CFS having a psychological element it. When you take this factor alone into account, it certainly is not hard to imagine why so many sufferers become depressed. After all, what could be worse than feeling constantly ill and tired, and then on top of everything else, feeling as though you need to justify your illness?

Brief History

The first documented cases of CFS appeared in the 1980′s in Nevada, where patients reported feeling an overwhelming sense of fatigue and muscle pain. At the time it was thought that group of people likely to be most susceptible to CFS were young, white and affluent professionals, hence the unfortunate term Yuppie Flu’ was born. In the UK it became known as ME.

According to the Centre for Disease Control (CDC), most CFS sufferers are typically white, female with an age range between 40′s to 50′s. Although there is a high incidence of women in the number of reported sufferers, this in itself is not conclusive as it thought that women might be more likely to report the illness than men.

The Cause

Despite that fact that there has been active research in this area for the last twenty years, the experts have yet to reach a consensus as to what actually causes Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

One theory is that no single cause exists, however, according to medical research specialists such as Dr W. H. Philpott and Dr Kalita, viruses such as those listed below are thought to play a role:

- Epstein-Barr

- Cytemegalo

- Candidiasis (Yeast Overgrowth)

In addition, other factors listed below are also thought to the immune systems demise:

- Underactive Thyroid Gland

- Stress

- Toxic Overload

- Nutritional Deficiencies

- Prolonged use of Antibiotics, Hydrocortisone or Vaccinations

The Impact to Self & Society

To try to get an understanding of the impact that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome has on society lets first take a look at the sufferer’s Improvement Rate.

According to the CDC, 40% of people show some improvement in their symptoms on follow up visits to the medical practitioner after receiving treatment for Chronic Fatigue.

However, the prospect of a full recovery with the current modes of treatment are only around between 5% – 10%.The results of a study conducted in Wichita, Kansas, give a useful economic overview. The results revealed that the annual total productivity loss per CFS sufferer is estimated to be around

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